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Peer reviewedSharp, Marcia K. – Initiatives, 1991
Considers relationship between women's colleges and women's movement. Notes that, although private legal scholars did not perceive women's colleges within reach of proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), popular assumption was that, if passed, ERA would have eliminated women's colleges. Adds that women's colleges were not major players in…
Descriptors: College Students, Feminism, Higher Education, Single Sex Colleges
Peer reviewedHandler, Bonnie S.; Shmurak, Carole B. – Teaching Education, 1991
Mary Lyon was the founder of Mount Holyoke College and a pioneer in science education. She was an early proponent of the laboratory method of teaching, disseminating it throughout nineteenth-century schools. Lyon established a distinguished chemistry faculty and founded an excellent department which has trained many women chemists. (SM)
Descriptors: Biographies, Chemistry, College Faculty, Equal Education
Peer reviewedShmurak, Carole B.; Handler, Bonnie S. – Teaching Education, 1991
Lydia Shattuck was responsible for the excellence in science instruction at Mount Holyoke Seminary. Shattuck graduated in 1851 and remained there as a faculty member, specializing in chemistry and botany. One of the first women to join scientific societies, she helped enlarge the sphere of women engaged in scientific research. (SM)
Descriptors: Biographies, College Faculty, Equal Education, Excellence in Education
Peer reviewedForeman, Judy – Change, 1982
Nannerl Overhouser Keohane, one of a new breed of women presidents of women's colleges, is strongly committed to feminist scholarship and is also working to prepare Wellesley's graduates for the technology of the future. The role of minority students at Wellesley is discussed. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, College Presidents, College Students
Peer reviewedBernstein, Alison – Change, 1990
A program officer at the Ford Foundation traces her experiences as student and "young trustee" at Vassar, graduate student at Columbia University during the early '70s, and teacher at Staten Island Community College. The challenge of diversity that she encountered in the '70s is seen as still prevalent today. (MLW)
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Students, Cultural Pluralism, Equal Education
George Washington Univ., Washington, DC. Inst. for Educational Leadership. – 1979
Transcripts from a four-part National Public Radio "Options in Education" series are presented in this publication. The first program examines student cheating at colleges. Students and faculty discuss methods of cheating, reasons for cheating, student attitudes toward cheating, specific instances of cheating, and provide insights into why…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Colleges, Black Education, Cheating
Stringer, Patricia A., Ed.; Thompson, Irene, Ed. – 1982
Views of the deep-rooted assumptions and myths surrounding the role of women in academic institutions of the South are presented in scholarly articles, experience-based essays, and poems. Among the themes that are explored are the history of women's involvement in higher education, women's studies, women's status, racial stereotypes, alienation,…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Stereotypes, Black Students, Black Teachers
